I do the people's work, and this is a democracy.

I have worked very hard to promote livability and economic development in the Springfield community, ... go hand in hand.

I'm confident we will continue - and quite possibly increase - the quality of services and save both cities a significant amount of money,

Their concern was that I am a town employee and will be overseeing other town employees. When I was on the Board of Education for 12 years and oversaw 500-plus employees, there was never a concern or conflict raised then.

Nothing I could 'give to them' would help me or benefit me in any way.

It was a very competitive meet. In any given season Mount Sinai, Bayport and Shoreham-Wading River are all right in there. We have a very young team with only one senior. So next year all but one will be back.

It's been tested here and we know we can do it.

This is the wave of the future in the way of government cooperation. It's the approach public safety has to take today.

The whole thing was much ado about nothing. At the end of the day, I pay taxes, too. I treat everyone fairly.

When you have entities that start planning and including lands that are not under their jurisdiction as part of their plan, you get kind of apprehensive about that.